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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ironic23" data-source="post: 553891" data-attributes="member: 24646">I work with diesel engines and aftertreatment systems for a living and am interested in understanding if any diesel-heads out there know whether the Malaysian government is going to introduce legislation of diesel engines emissions in the near future?The reason i ask is because if emissions start being regulated (i.e. Euro 5 level and beyond), the introduction of DOC-DPF-SCR (aftertreatment) systems or EGR will definitely change the overall total cost of ownership of diesel passenger vehicles. It probably won't affect vehicles purchased prior to the legislation being enacted but may change the future landscape of owning diesel passenger vehicles.Does anyone know whether BMW published any reports of the results from their testing of the N47 with Malaysian Euro 2 diesel fuel? I tried Googling it but had no fruitful results. I'm surprised to read comments from BMW that the testing showed no ill-effects on the engine (quote: <a href="http://star-motoring.com/Previews/2011/Diesel-5-launched.aspx" target="_blank">http://star-motoring.com/Previews/2011/Diesel-5-launched.aspx</a>) - using such high sulfur content fuel will definitely degrade the lube oil at a different rate amongst other potential issues, which in turn will have an effect on the engine performance at some point and especially so when the engine was initially designed to run on higher quality diesel fuel.And to add to that, BMW Malaysia's choice of included service + repair for 3 years / 60,000 km compared to longer durations / distances in other countries is an interesting fact.</blockquote>

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